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Chapter 2: Awakening
She woke up to discover she was in a bedroom. She laid on a twin bed pushed against a wall, looking over to the wall straight in front of her she saw a closet with women's clothing inside. On the same wall there was a small desk with a wooden chair in front of it. When she looked to her left, she saw the wall the bed was against, at the end of the bed, there was a door that was slightly open so she could see into what looked like a small hallway. There was also a medium sized window on the wall opposite of the door and the bed which revealed a starlight sky.
"Oh, you're awake?" she heard a voice ask her.
"Yeah, what happened?" She inquired to the blonde before her. Her voice felt stale, like she hadn't talked in a while.
"Well, I was on my way into town when I saw you lying by the cemetery bleeding. So I picked you up and brought you back here so my friend could take a look at you." The teen said as a stern look crossed his face and he continued. "So might I ask how exactly you lost your left arm and leg?"
"What?" Then she looked down to see bandages where her left limbs should have been. So that was the toll, her left limbs, the things she used to survive were taken from the side where her heart was. The realization hit her like a bus, they were gone, this wasn't going to be fun and games, they weren't coming back. She felt herself tear up, but suppressed them and looked up at him.
"So? What the hell happened?" The boy asked, this time more forceful. But after noticing the look in her eyes, he settled down a bit.
"What year is it?" She suddenly burst out.
"Umm well it's 1912 just like it has been for like, the past six months." He said a but put off by her sudden urgency and inquiry.
Before she gave him any more time to interview her any further, she asked -or more like told him:
"Your name is Edward Elric and you were recently deemed the Fullmetal Alchemist. Correct? Your friends name is Winry Rockbell and this is her and her grandmother -Pinako Rockbell's automail shop. Well, am I right? Well? And before you think I'm crazy I just want to let you know that I know about what you've etched into your watch, among other things."
He just looked at her with a confused look while his mouth moved -almost of its own accord- and said "Who are you? Ho-How do you even...?"
"I will explain everything later -I swear but first I need Winry to install some ports and get me hooked up with some automail." She was on autopilot now, avoiding emotion. Emotion was bad, emotion hurt. Autopilot fixed that, she didn't have to think about it she just had to act.
"Okay." said the Fullmetal Alchemist as he turned away from the mysterious girl laying in his friends bed to retrieve Winry. All the while thinking about how she knew what she knew and if she knew this much, just how much did she know?
"Winry, the girl's awake and she's asking for some automail. You might want to go talk to her." Edward told Winry half dazed, before mumbling something about finding his brother and walking out the door.
As soon as Winry heard his words she grabbed her medical kit and rushed to her room to check up on her newest and primary concern.
As she saw Winry come in she saw her take the wooden chair from the desk and sit it next to the bed, then she proceeded to change her bandages and she could not bring herself to look at where her limbs used to be.
"How did this happen?" Winry asked as her crystal blue eyes almost pierced right through the other girl's skin trying to pick up on why she was being so mysterious.
"Um. well I promise I'll tell you everything after I get some automail?" It had come out more like a question than a statement.
"Well the surgery is very expensive, not to mention painful, and it will most likely take two to three years for you to regain your strength so you should re-" Winry had been cut off by her patient.
"No. My mind is made up I need to move forward, my old life is gone and I need to regain the ability to stand up on my own two feet and walk forward."
"But that is the exact same reason friends exist. Geez you're just like Ed, I swear. When you have trouble walking on your own two legs you lean on them. If you cannot see the path that lies ahead, they help to guide you and even if you can't hear them they will still tell you that you can do it. So just wait until Ed and Granny get back so that I can confer with them and you to see the best course of action. And I swear that if you fidget again I will hit you so hard with my wrench you won't physically be able to fidget for a very long time!"
All she could do was gulp and stare at this girl, Winry, with wide eyes as she continued on with her task.
"Oh I forgot to ask you about your name. What is it?" She momentarily stopped long enough to look at her and listen for her response.
"Trisha." Of course that was not her real name, but they didn't know that and she had a new look, a new life so a new name was fitting. Plus, as she thought about it, she couldn't really remember her old name. Things from her past were getting a bit fuzzy.
"Oh." Winry looked surprised and she kind of regretted taking their mother's name but she wanted to get close to them and now she felt really bad about it.
After a few more minutes of her checking things and neatening up the bandages she stood up packed up her things and quietly exited the room soon to be replaced by Edward and Pinako who stood beside the bed.
They looked out the window looking at how the sun was slowly painting the blackness to a beautiful backsplash of oranges, reds, and yellows against the warm green summer countryside.
Pinako took a moment to inspect her wounds and then stated: "We'll make you some automail." and then abruptly started walking out the door until Trisha stopped her.
"But I don't have any money to pay you-."
"Now stop right there child. I will do this free of charge because you need it and you aren't just doing it to get a look at my granddaughter or to get 'cooler' looking automail, so do not worry we'll take care of you so relax and rest up while we prepare your automail. The surgery will probably be later today or tomorrow, but it'll take a little over three days to fix your actual automail."
She spent the next few hours sleeping until she heard a loud knock on the door and gave a groggily replied "Come on in." and sat up against the wooden headboard to see Winry come in.
"We're going to do the prep work for the surgery now so hold tight."
After several minutes she was wheeled to another room with walls lined with different tools and a large table with a sheet covering it. A rolling tray with medical tools on it was beside the large table.
After she was placed on the table and they were ready to start Edward excused himself saying something about bad memories and exited the room. Winry turned to me and said seven words with a grim expression "Brace yourself. This is gonna be painful."
Then it started, and it was the most painful thing anybody could ever imagine. They had to move quickly so that she didn't go into complete shock and pass out before they could attach her nerves to the steel nerves inside the port because if she passed out the nerves would retract and it would be very difficult. Due to their having to work quickly they weren't exactly the gentlest. Winry's eyes kept flicking to her face from her position beside Trisha with a look of guilt.
As they ripped the recently scabbed over flesh of her limbs open to attempt the nerve-port connection it felt as if a thousand needles were converging upon her skin and it became progressively more difficult to hold in her screams of pain. They then molded the metal into her flesh with a red hot melder. Then after that they welded the metal stitching on her nerves into the metal connectors and then rapidly cooled them by pouring ice onto the metal of the port. They then attached the ports to temporary automail until her measurements and permanent automail were finalized.
They worked in sync through the entire process working swiftly and quickly. In her head it had taken hours upon hours, but in reality the whole procedure had only taken about twenty minutes.
After the procedure she was taken to her room, by the time everything was over it was almost one in the morning. She almost instantly fell asleep.
When she woke up Edward and Alphonse -suit of armor and all- walked into her room. Edward took a seat while Alphonse stood next to him.
"Okay you're going to tell us everything you know." Edward said grimly.
"Of course but I have a few questions about when we are."
"Okay, ask away."
"I will, and then I'll tell you everything."
A/N: DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN! Okay so this chapter is pretty long due to my lack of frequency when updating. So I am asking you to please please please review? Also please inform me if anybody seems OOC I want to remain semi-accurate in this fanfic. Also I am going to recommend a story on here because it is by far the funniest and best FMA Fanfic I've ever read it is written by Hangonsilvergirl and is titled: It's Not a Big Deal. So please check it out I promise you won't regret it. Also the layout of the bedroom Trisha is staying in is just as you see it in Brotherhood. It is Winry's room. Also what do you think Trisha's last name should be? Alrec? I don't know and I need a little bit of help deciding. Also to prompt some reviews and PMs I'm going to ask some FMA related questions so I can also better know my absolutely fabulous readers! Today I'll ask TWO questions:
1: Top Pairings? Edwin? Royed? Royai? Almei? What's your preference?
AND...
2: Top five favorite characters in the entire Brotherhood Series and if possible, reasons why you like them so much.
I'll be posting my answers next chapter so please stick around because I promise once this story really gets started it'll only get better! (which will be soon!) XD
Edward: Shut up! Just get on with it and start the next chapter! And tell us if you want me to be with Winry or Trisha?
Winry: *blushes like crazy* Edward!
Edward: What it's just a question! Wait no please don't hurt me...ah!
Winry: Okay so that concludes this chapter and its super long authors note.
Pinako: Yeah no kidding.
Me: Hey! Well they're right so without further ado I will close this chapter up! Please Review!